English Activities

Imagine yourself on the back seat of a car.
• Describe what you see and hear in a day of driving?
• Are they happy scenes, tiring, sad?

Complete the Air Pollution word search found here.

Complete the crossword puzzle found here.

Play the“Smogclouds and Sunbeams” board game (instructions here).

Write a Smogbusters play with the message:
“It’s healthier to walk, cycle and use public transport than drive a car.”

Write a play where the characters are the pollutants from the car.
• What would they have to say, perhaps to a reporter interviewing them?
• What would the solution to combating these pollutants be from a Smogbuster?

Complete this statement.
“I caught the bus to the city and................”

Have a Smogbuster poetry competition in the class or throughout the school.
• Choose some of these poems to put into the school newsletter.

Describe a day in the life of someone who lived before the invention of
the motor car.

Start a journal relating to air quality and transport.
• Include newspaper or magazine articles, letters to the editor, brochures and pamphlets relating to this subject and anything that is of interest.

Write a book about a trip taken using public transport, walking or cycling.

Make it a real trip so that people could read the book while actually taking the journey.
• This will take some research beforehand.
• It could be an ongoing class room project.
• It would be great to illustrate the book with class drawings or even use actual
photographs.
• It could be a school excursion that could be documented.
• It could also be published for parents and friends, and used as a fundraiser for the class (school).

Have a school or class poster competition.
• What are the important features of a poster?
• What message do you need to convey?
• Use a theme - eg Public Transport, Good For You, Good for the Environment.

Describe how roads have changed our society.

Create a newspaper - “The Smogbuster Times” or “The Smogbuster Bulletin”.
• Include articles about: transport and pollution, transport and health,

Convey your ideas in interesting ways.
Posters with a message, Cartoons, Drawings, Poems, Parent articles etc.

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Preface

Core Activities
Survey Sheets

Car pollution

Society and environment

Health and physical education

English

Science and technology

Arts

Expressive Arts

Maths

Crossword and answers

Word search Prep
Grade 1&2,
Grade 3&4,
Grade 5&6,

Game instructions


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